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Hyderabad to Become the First Indian City to Offer Google Street View

Hyderabad will be the first city in India to get Google Street View, Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao said on Tuesday.

An assignment drove by the clergyman met the Google Street View group of Manik Gupta, Director of Product Management and Narayana Tummala, Ground Truth Engineering Lead for Google on Tuesday.

While Street View has been broadly utilized as a part of the US, Canada, and numerous European nations, its applications in India have been restricted in this way. Google has dispatched Street View for a percentage of the visitor locales like Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar in organization with the Archeological Society of India, however not yet possessed the capacity to offer road level perspectives of Indian urban areas.

"Google is in chats with the Minister of Home Affairs to get consents for leading the Street View exercise at a vast level. This authorization is required to be given quickly."

"Upon the solicitation made by the Minister, Google has consented to make Telangana the first state which will get Street View for one complete city, in particular, Hyderabad in any case, with consequent augmentation to other real urban communities and towns," Rama Rao said in an announcement issued in Hyderabad.

Google has likewise consented to bolster particular appeals made by the clergyman to use Street View for checking of deviations from affirmed building arrangements, property charge accumulation, mapping of modern area bank situated in diverse parts of the state, among others, the announcement included.

Google has in the past endeavored to offer Street View in India, yet kept running into administrative obstacles. Others like WoNoBo have ventured into fill the hole.